Plugin | Key Features | Pricing | Direct Link |
---|---|---|---|
ConvertPlus | ✓ 10+ popup positions for Lead generation ✓ 12+ visitor behavior triggers & filters ✓ Page level targeting ✓ Campaigns repetition control | $23 | Download |
Icegram | ✓ Create unlimited popups and CTAs ✓ 50+ high-converting opt-in popups ✓ Sticky notes & hello bars ✓ Automate email marketing campaigns | Free (Starter) Pro version starts at $129/year | Download |
OptinMonster | ✓ Most powerful lead generation plugin ✓ Behavior Automation to personalize offers ✓ 97+ pre-made templates ✓ Page level targeting | Starts at $9/mo (billed annually) | Download |
Leadpages | ✓ 250+ conversion-optimized templates ✓ Landing pages, alert bars, & pop-ups ✓ Unlimited A/B split testing ✓ Real-time conversion analytics | Starts at $37/mo (billed annually) | Download |
ThriveLeads | ✓ Templates library with drag & drop editor ✓ Run A/B tests to improve results ✓ Multiple targeting options | $99/year | Download |
Earlier, I talked about the importance of having a newsletter for your blog. I also mentioned that, out of all of the essential subscription options, you should focus on getting email subscribers.
It doesn’t matter if you are using ConvertKit, AWeber, GetResponse, or any other service to build your email list, you should keep working on it.
Email lists are one of the essential parts of a blog, and I have already talked about this in detail:
Undoubtedly, building an email list can be a BIG asset for your online business. But the problem is that most new bloggers don’t know how to grab their audience’s attention to make them subscribe.
If you want to get more people to subscribe to your blog, you first need to have a compelling offer.
After that, you need a good plugin.
5 WordPress Plugins To Grow Email Subscriber List:
Here are 5Â awesome WordPress plugins to help grow your email list.
1. ConvertPlus WordPress Plugin
This is one of those all-in-one WordPress popup plugins that help you build your email list faster than before.
It helps you transform your website into a list building powerhouse. With fully customized popups, you can convert your visitors into subscribers in minutes. This world-class WordPress popup plugin comes with more than 12 distinct visitor behavior triggers and over 10 different popup display positions.
What’s more! You’ll get over 100 professionally designed readymade templates aimed to boost your conversion rate.
This globally acclaimed plugin offers some must-have features including opt-in popups, exit popups, video popups, slide-in popups, embedded forms, social popups, info bars, two-step opt-ins, user inactivity trigger, repetition control, page-level targeting, referral detection, import & export etc that are sure to take your email subscription list to the next level.
The plugin offers you 10+ popup display positions, 12+ different visitor triggers and filters, and 100+ pre-designed and high-converting templates.
2. Icegram – Free
The Icegram free plugin offers some amazing features that you will hardly find in any other free WordPress plugin. You can create popups, messenger popups, action bars (bottom or top), and toast notifications. From a collection of six beautifully designed popups, you can create one according to your preference. There are some drawbacks though such as the absence of a visual builder and the inability of customizing button colors and backgrounds, which mean your choice will be restricted to the templates offerings.
However, Icegram makes it extremely easy to create targeted campaigns. You can configure the appearance of a popup including after what time, on which pages, between what dates and on the devices it should be displayed. What’s more! Icegram works with almost all email marketing software and all lead/form capture plugins.
3. OptinMonster
OptinMonster is one of the most popular email marketing WordPress plugins available.
OptinMonster can also be used by non-WordPress users, but for now, let’s focus on how you can use it for your WordPress blog.
OptinMonster offers various kinds of subscription boxes that can be used to capture the emails of your readers. In January 2016, I tried their full-page Welcome Gate & the results were astonishing.
The conversion rate was 4.09% (which is above average):
One thing which I really like about OptinMonster is its user-friendly interface & their ’round the clock support.
You don’t have to be technically savvy to create a subscription popup as you can use their ready-made subscription box & personalize it to your website.
I have been using them for the last 7 years & so far I’m very happy. They keep adding all of the latest techniques which help end users like you & me to sky-rocket our email capturing campaigns.
I highly recommend OptinMonster to all ShoutMeLoud readers.
4. Leadpages
If you are looking for a perfect solution to quickly grow your email list, look no further than Leadpages.
Leadpages lets you create stunning landing pages, email subscription pages, and Thank You pages within minutes.
They also have a WordPress plugin for easy integration with your WordPress blog.
Note: Leadpages can be used with WordPress & other platforms as well.
This is a complete value for the money, as for only $17/month (paid every two years), you get access to unlimited squeeze pages.
I’m using Leadpages on my blogs, and it has increased my email subscriptions by 34%.
They offer all kinds of various manuals and complete instructional videos to help you get started and make the most out of their platform.
You can read more about Leadpages here:
- The Complete Review of Leadpages: Popular Landing Page Creator Tool
- How To Set Up a Lead Magnet within Blog Posts Using Leadpages
5. ThriveLeads List Building WP Plugin
ThriveLeads is a lead generation WordPress plugin that helps you build your email list faster.
This HTML supported WordPress plugin comes with a full money-back guarantee plus the benefit of keeping the plugin for free.
It offers almost every kind of opt-in form that may be required to build a strong email subscription list like ribbon-style forms, slide-in forms, scroll mat, 2-step opt-in buttons, full-screen forms, and features like exit intent, scroll triggers, SmartExit, API integrations with most popular email services, etc.
It comes with the most cutting-edge conversion tactics that are used by smart business and growth hackers and helps you build every type of opt-in form possible to maximize your conversions.
You can create:
- Popup lightboxes
- Sticky ribbons
- In-line forms
- 2-step opt-in forms
- Slide-ins
- Opt-in widgets
- …and more.
WordPress Plugins To Grow Your Mailing List
All of the above-listed email subscription WordPress plugins are popular for good reasons.
While some of them may be better than others for specific marketing strategies, any of them will work well if you’re trying to build a simple email list.
Do let me know which WordPress plugin you are using to grow email subscriptions on your blog. Are you building a separate squeeze page or are you offering a popup? Let me hear your thoughts in the comments below.
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Thanks for a great list of WordPress Email subscription plugins 🙂
I am trying to find a Email subscription plugin which I can use in my posts, pls suggest me some free Email subscription plugin.
Thanks 🙂
hey harsh. thats a really very very good article. it helped me a lot. i never really looked good at sign ups. but your article solved my problem. probably the best solution i found over the Internet. thanks again.
Email subscription plugin plays an impotent role in blogging success.
Choosing a better plugin can give you a great list of subscribers .
My favorite is Feedburner Optin Form. It is based on Google Feedburner. Very simple and easy to use. And, on top of that, its free.
@Saket
Feedburner Optin https://wordpress.org/plugins/feedburner-optin-form/ looks intersting. Useful for many who are using Feedburner for marketing. Though I would recommend to use a service Like Aweber or Mailchimp, as you will have complete control over your blog email marketing.
I’ve been using Simple Subscribe and worked fine until recently. It’s not sending post notifications anymore and the reviews I’ve read, other people are having problems as well (that aren’t being resolved). Which of these plugins will also send post notifications? Thank you!
Try Email subscribers wordpres plugin. It have options to send notification email to subscribers when new posts are published to your blog.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-subscribers/
Hello Harsh, really great list with really useful plugins list. Personally i am using hellobar from the list on my new blog. Its looking decent and pretty good. After going through your post i want to give it a try for aweber plugin which you are using and subscribe to download. BTW @AmmarAli thanks for your mention of that plugin. I have been looking for one of that kind. 🙂
Hi,
I just installed the hello bar on my site and was wondering if the email subscribers it collects will be reflected in my feedburner list. Is there something I can do so that when I get new subscribers it will be included on my feedburner subscribers list?
I await your reply please.
Thanks
Even i do have the same confusion. Though it will collect email id but how to link up with the blog.. @harsh can you please answe
Excellent List . My email marketing plugin search ends here
Thanks for the useful information .
Very helpful info. Do you know if any of these can easily be placed across the top of the front page, like a squeeze page? I’m tired of OptimizePress’ look and feel….
Thanks for this comprehensive list of subscription options. I did a search on opt-in skin anniversary and found a goldmine.
Wow! Awesome list of plugins. Well, most of these are premium but they are worth, however free ones also seems to be good. I will try optin crusher or welcome gate. Thanks Harsh for sharing 🙂
Thanks harsh bro. for sharing.i am currently using free plug in for e-mail Subscribers but is it any big advantage of using premium plugin or i should continue with free plugin.
@Ravi
Advantage with Premium stuff is usually, you get premium features, which you won’t find in free version. Though, at times there are few free plugins, which are also amazing. You should pick free or premium based on features you need for your blog.
Great collection Harsh ! I just started a blog for spreading practical engineering to use in daily life & thinking to use Subscribe to Download for WordPress for making ebooks available to download. I hope it will be very helpful in my work.
Hi @Ammar, as you are using it from last five years, I want to listen more about it from you.
Well, I’ve been using Subscribe to Download for WordPress from more than 5 years. It is helping me alot to distribute my blogger template to subscribers. 😀
Awesome list Harsh! 🙂
Great list of Plugins. I have already installed Welcome Gate plugin on my blog and it’s working quite well.
At this moment, I cannot afford premium plugins for my blog. But I do think that these plugins could boost the number of Email subscribers on a blog.
Hey Harsh,
Nice list. WP Subscriber magnet seems useful to me. I will try it out. Instead of Hellobar I am using Viperbar. It works great for me.
Thanks for the list.
I have used some of the above plugins and some i have seen just now.thanks gonna try them out.hope i get more subscribers
Let me add another valid tips to this list.
Run a competition and ask users to sign up for the newsletter in order to avail the gift. The reach and subscriber count is depends on the product you offer so try to offer some good stuffs which the user like the most.
Excellent List Harsh..eespecially the Welcome gate and Optin Crusher is new to me..lets have a Try.
Thanks a lot